Fighting hunger and food waste with technology company Copia

Project DASH is our initiative to fight hunger and reduce waste by powering deliveries of donated food to hunger relief nonprofits. Since launching in early 2018, we’ve facilitated over 8,000 Project DASH deliveries, totaling more than 500,000 pounds of food.

This is made possible through our partnerships with food rescue platforms, which are used by restaurants and other businesses to post donations of surplus food and have them matched with nearby nonprofits.

Thanks to our partnership, Copia is not only able to scale faster but also able to dedicate more focus to user-testing and refining its innovative waste tracking software which is included in its subscription-based service. Copia customers use its app to track and prevent food waste through detailed predictive analytics. When food excess occurs, the same platform is used to request a donation pick-up, fulfilled by a Dasher. The donation is matched to a nonprofit that needs that exact type and amount of food.

In less than ten months, DoorDash Drive enabled Copia to rapidly scale its operations to 11 new cities and connect 250,000 pounds of high-quality food to people facing hunger. Today, seventy percent of Copia’s deliveries are powered by DoorDash.

Are you interested in working with Copia and DoorDash? Email projectdash@doordash.com and we’ll connect you.

Related posts:

With all 289 apps being managed through the Bidshake platform, Voodoo was able to automate 95% of the day-to-day manual tasks.

a poem about a love story that could never be. nature.

Mascarpone Prosecco Raspberry Parfaits are a surprisingly indulgent refreshing dessert that can be prepared days ahead and kept in the refrigerator for entertaining. They’re easy to make, and the…